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Links Week Ending 4th March 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. VRR update for 2021 Sony TVs …

Tags:audio| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| iPhone| Laser Projectors| LED| LG Electronics (LGE)| Outdoor Displays| Pricing| Samsung| Semiconductors| Smartphones| STBs| TVs (TV Sets)| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| VideoConferencing| ViewSonic

vivo XFold

Vivo aims to jump into the foldable market

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Vivo X Fold is here and will be sold in China. The smartphone has an 8.03″ 1800 x 2200 LTPO3 AMOLED using UTG. The outer display is a 6.53″ and …

Tags:Smartphones| Testing

Could Apple Offer Hardware Subsciptions?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apple is widely reported to be considering subscriptions for the firm’s hardware. The plan would allow consumers to swap out their devices, possibly annually. It would not simply a pay over …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| Pricing| Smartphones| tablets

Links Week Ending 1st April 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. I haven’t been watching audio closely, …

Tags:Apple| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HP Inc| Interactive Displays| ISE 2022| KVMs| Mergers & Acquisitions| MMD (AOC Philips)| Repair| Russia| Samsung| Smartphone Market| Smartphones| TVs (TV Sets)| Ukraine| USA

Samsung Display developing under panel tech for iPhone Face ID

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Elec reported on work being done by Samsung to allow a concealment of Apple’s Face ID sensor under the display without a notch or hole. The paper said that the …

Tags:Apple| iPhone| OLED Materials| Samsung| Smartphones| Under-Display Cameras

Samsung CEO apologizes for Stifling phone performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported the other day that Samsung had been caught up in a bit of a scandal over performance throttling. (Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance). At the company’s AGM, …

Tags:Market Shares - Brands| Samsung| Smartphones

Samsung Electronics Ships More LCD Smartphones than OLED models in 2021

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in Business Korea last week, quoting data from Omdia, pointed out that Samsung shipped more smartphones with LCDs than with OLEDs in 2021. Samsung Electronics shipped 135.8 million LCD …

Tags:Market Data| OLEDs| Samsung| Small Medium LCDs| Smartphones

The Xiaomi 12 Series Launches Internationally

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Xiaomi launched three 12 series smartphones. The displays are: Xiaomi 12 – 6.28″ 1080 x 2400 AMOLED – 120Hz, , 1,100 cd/m² $749 Xiaomi 12 Pro – 6.7″ 1440 x 3200 …

Tags:Smartphones| Xiaomi

Samsung Caught in Scandal over S22 Performance

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Korea Herald reports that Samung has been attacked by a lot of users in Korea over reports that an add-in, the ‘Game Optimizing Service’, or GOS, may kick in to …

Tags:CPUs| Korea| Samsung| Smartphones